The hint of a second wing bar made me think Semi-Collared for a second
But its a female/first winter type Pied Fly

Reminds me of the fantastic County Durham Bee-Eaters...can't believe that's 12 years ago!

Thanks

Apologies if I come across as direct... I'm obviously new to Butterflying and am a lapsed birder... Out of interest...and i suspect there's a few like me that don't understand...in a UK context...outside of structured scientific studies what would a net be used for (In a Butterfly context - I unders...

Very sad to see collectors on site... As with birds "Half measures" suppression gives you the worst of all possible worlds... There's no-way to keep the secret close once news is spread around friends and then friends of friends and then their friends etc...add in letting the appropriate r...

I wanted to see it...and never found out where...I had my suspicions...but Nottingham to Swanage is a long way to travel on a hunch... Mildly irritating in that if it was to be well and truly suppressed on protection grounds...fair enough...but it was well and truly passed around the locals...as the...

Problem with releases like this... If these were genuine immigrants...they and the site would warrant protecting and encouraging...a new British breeder and such a charismatic one too would create quite a stir and be a real flagship for Butterfly Conservation... Unfortunately illegal releases cloud ...

With Map expanding on the near continent and making the jump to the channel islands etc...it's certainly a potential colonist...

Wouldn't any illegal introductions jeopardize that? So we should be MORE careful than with some random exotic!

Not sure of the veracity of this...but I've heard tell from another forum that this may be one of a number of micro-colonies along the South Coast... Location's normally kept a tightly controlled secret because there has been at least one individual who wiped one of the colonies out deliberately as ...

Looks like an Essex Skipper to me (the sharp black antenna tips are visible in the photo)

Definitely a Grayling...nice photo...they can be hard to get pics of...being so mobile and skittish!

LOL! Simultaneous posting there David M I agree wholeheartedly!

From a UK perspective there is simply no reason to collect any Butterflies for ID purposes...particularly with the ease and cost of digital photography... I do a reasonable amount of Moth Trapping...and whilst there is a considerably greater number of species and ID problems...from a macro perspecti...

A really "late summer" feel to yesterdays Butterfly outing (August 7th) Visited a trio of South-Eastern sites to catch up with the late summer specialties and was rewarded with good numbers of Silver-spotted Skipper at Ashton Rowant (and lots of second brood Small Heath) One photogenic (an...

I guess the easy answer in future is to agressively challenge anyone with a net... I confess I saw two people with nets at Daneway Banks in June and while I questioned them I meekly swallowed their story of collecting Small Eggar (or similar) Caterpillars... With Hindsight I should have chased them ...

Any location details?
Is anyone going to try for this tomorrow?

No Brown Hairstreak for me at Chambers Farm Wood today...but plenty of Purple Hairstreak - I must have seen at least 20+ individuals...they were almost everywhere that there were oak and ash tree's together! Very active in the canopy so little b*ggers to photograph...managed a few blurry record shot...

A hot day in the field...even though I was out and about by 9am everything was very skittish and active...making good photo's hard to come by! Visited Arnside Knott and there were plenty of Grayling about on the area's of exposed stone on the slopes uphill from the Car Park...and small numbers of Sc...

Welcome aboard...Leicestershire (and Rutland) is a good county for Butterflies!

White-letter...even if the white line is faded and the "W" isn't clear the White-letter lacks the row of black spots along the trailing edge of the hindwing that a Black Hairstreak would have...

Am I right in this ID...the black antenna tips (particularly the contrast from the brown stems of the antenna) make this an Essex Skipper rather than a Small?
Cheers!